Uppsala climate

Name: Uppsala
Address: SE

Uppsala is warmest in July, with average highs of 22 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average -5.4 °C. August is the wettest month (73 mm) and February the driest (28 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Uppsala averages 569 mm of rain, 12 days above 25 °C and 127 days below freezing.

Sweden · population 177,074 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 22 °C
Coldest month February -5.4 °C
Driest month February 28 mm
Wettest month August 73 mm
Least cloud May 58 % cloud
Hottest on record July 32 °C
Coldest on record February -24 °C

What to expectUppsala through the year

Uppsala has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 0.2 °C in February to 22 °C in July, a swing of 20 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 12 days a year reach 25 °C, 1 of them reach 30 °C, 127 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 73 mm against 28 mm in February — 2.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-0.4 °C	35 mm	76 %
February	0.2 °C	28 mm	73 %
March	3.9 °C	30 mm	66 %
April	9.7 °C	33 mm	62 %
May	15.3 °C	46 mm	58 %
June	19.1 °C	68 mm	60 %
July	21.8 °C	70 mm	59 %
August	20.5 °C	73 mm	63 %
September	15.6 °C	50 mm	64 %
October	9.0 °C	49 mm	71 %
November	4.0 °C	44 mm	78 %
December	0.9 °C	42 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-0.4 °C	-4.8 °C	-2.4 °C	9.7 °C	-22.9 °C	0	25
February	0.2 °C	-5.4 °C	-2.5 °C	10.2 °C	-24.5 °C	0	24
March	3.9 °C	-3.3 °C	0.3 °C	17.6 °C	-23.3 °C	0	23
April	9.7 °C	0.8 °C	5.3 °C	24.7 °C	-11.8 °C	0	12
May	15.3 °C	5.8 °C	10.7 °C	28.0 °C	-4.6 °C	0	1
June	19.1 °C	10.5 °C	15.0 °C	30.5 °C	3.3 °C	2	0
July	21.8 °C	13.5 °C	17.8 °C	32.2 °C	6.8 °C	6	0
August	20.5 °C	12.9 °C	16.7 °C	30.5 °C	3.7 °C	4	0
September	15.6 °C	8.9 °C	12.2 °C	26.0 °C	0.0 °C	0	0
October	9.0 °C	4.1 °C	6.5 °C	19.1 °C	-13.8 °C	0	5
November	4.0 °C	0.3 °C	2.2 °C	14.5 °C	-16.6 °C	0	14
December	0.9 °C	-3.1 °C	-1.0 °C	11.7 °C	-23.4 °C	0	22

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	35 mm	8	6.8 h/day	76 %	86 %	18 km/h
February	28 mm	8	9.1 h/day	73 %	84 %	17 km/h
March	30 mm	7	12 h/day	66 %	78 %	17 km/h
April	33 mm	8	15 h/day	62 %	72 %	17 km/h
May	46 mm	10	17 h/day	58 %	67 %	16 km/h
June	68 mm	11	19 h/day	60 %	70 %	16 km/h
July	70 mm	11	18 h/day	59 %	72 %	15 km/h
August	73 mm	12	16 h/day	63 %	76 %	15 km/h
September	50 mm	9	13 h/day	64 %	80 %	16 km/h
October	49 mm	10	10 h/day	71 %	85 %	17 km/h
November	44 mm	9	7.6 h/day	78 %	89 %	17 km/h
December	42 mm	10	6.0 h/day	76 %	88 %	18 km/h

How Uppsala compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Uppsala	22 °C	-5.4 °C	569 mm	12
Stockholm · Sweden	21 °C	-4.0 °C	567 mm	7
Mariehamn · Aland Islands	19 °C	-3.1 °C	509 mm	1
Örebro · Sweden	22 °C	-4.9 °C	641 mm	13
Linköping · Sweden	22 °C	-4.2 °C	606 mm	13
Turku · Finland	22 °C	-7.3 °C	669 mm	10

Where Uppsala ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Europe in July	30th of 50	88/100
The driest places in Europe in April	40th of 50	33 mm
The driest places in Europe in March	47th of 50	30 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Uppsala.

QuestionsCommon questions about Uppsala’s climate

When is the best time to visit Uppsala?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Uppsala get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 22 °C. About 1 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -5.4 °C in February, the coldest month. A normal year has 127 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Uppsala?

August, averaging 73 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is February with 28 mm. The year as a whole averages 569 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Uppsala rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 59.859°, 17.639° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.